NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 AMD Radeon HD 7730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 127% (1531MHz vs 675MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 25W)

AMD Radeon HD 7730M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +13%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon HD 7730M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

675 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

256

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Chelsea

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Chelsea LE (216-0834065)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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